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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media

but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.

What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.

I'm doing that because I've been surprised,

indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the

key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.

I remember it as a book

which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid

when she said write down what you've learned about your life

and so on and I started to dictate some short essays

and I greatly enjoyed it

and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea

and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.

And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.

But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.

And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.

But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,

a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.

For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,

on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,

on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.

Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.

So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?

Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten

and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne

that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.

They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.

And he starts his short forward as follows.

Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.

It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.

The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,

using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.

The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.

And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,

McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.

The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.

The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,

my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,

but this is a small extract from one email.

As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.

And this is where they truly shine.

Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.

It's more like a glow.

With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.

And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,

who is translating the book into Chinese.

And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.

What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.

They come in like air from outside.

The anxiety of my generation is real enough.

The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.

What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.

A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,

who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,

lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.

Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.

We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.

I know of no better remedy.

And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media

have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.

So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,

and I think you may share their feeling.

It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,

and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.

Thank you.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível C1 usa o vídeo “Essays what book is SD 480p”. As palavras que mais se repetem: essay, reflection, letter, written. Este vídeo tem 65 frases e 810 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 7:06. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 114 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. Apenas 79% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
litter substantivo	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	lixo
extract substantivo	/ˈɛkstɹækt/	extrato
acquaint verbo	/əˈkweɪnt/	familiarizar
admirer substantivo	/ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/	admirador, admiradora
alphabetical adjetivo	/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/	alfabético
anthropological adjetivo	/æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/	antropológico
anthropologist substantivo	/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	antropólogo, antropóloga
distil verbo	/dəˈstɪl/	destilar
elicit verbo	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	provocar
enormously advérbio		enormemente
postscript substantivo	/ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/	pós-escrito
predicament substantivo	/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/	predicamento
vigorous adjetivo	/ˈvɪɡəɹəs/	vigoroso
quirky adjetivo	/ˈkwɜːki/	peculiar
dictate verbo	/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/	ordenar, comandar

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	sair, partir
write down verbo		anotar

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	has just come · have learnt · I've been
Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa	book which has · people who were · person who has
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	who've been involved · is written · can't be explained

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 9 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'll, I'm, can't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

Os sons de “th”: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, acquaint /əˈkweɪnt/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, postscript /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, distil /dəˈstɪl/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/

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